Back in the day when android devices had more buttons than just volume and power you used to be able to boot straight to the recovery by using power and home (thinking back to my old HTC hero) but those days are long gone

Back in the day when android devices had more buttons than just volume and power you used to be able to boot straight to the recovery by using power and home (thinking back to my old HTC hero) but those days are long gone

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HTC desire had plenty of buttons, but you had to vol down + Power to hboot (bnootloader) and from there you got to fastboot or recovery.

My S3 had fewer buttons (volume, power and home). That was volume down + power for download mode (Samsung equivalent to fastboot) and volume up + power to recovery. It all just depends on the phone and oem.

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